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D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
25396
World Ranking
3864
National Ranking
1915

Neuroscience

D-Index
78
Citations
24116
World Ranking
1757
National Ranking
850

Ronald L. Davis publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronald L. Davis sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 167 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Ronald L. Davis D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ronald L. Davis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 78 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ronald L. Davis is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Neuroscience, with a considerable number of publications in both fields. Within these domains, Davis has contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Immunology, Physiology, and Cell Biology.

Davis's work covers several main topics including Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Frequent collaborators have included Nathaniel C. Noyes, Neelam Sharma, Courtney MacMullen, Jacob A. Berry, and Boglárka H. Várkuti. These repeated co-authorships suggest sustained research partnerships in related scientific areas.

Davis's publications have appeared notably in venues such as:

  • iScience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature
  • Genetics

Among more recent papers authored by Ronald L. Davis are:

  • "Mechanism of Action and Target Identification: A Matter of Timing in Drug Discovery," 2020, published in iScience
  • "Learning and memory using Drosophila melanogaster: a focus on advances made in the fifth decade of research," 2023, published in Genetics

Other notable recent works associated with Davis's collaborative network include:

  • "Dopamine-based mechanism for transient forgetting," 2021, in Nature
  • "Memory suppressor genes: Modulating acquisition, consolidation, and forgetting," 2021, in Neuron
  • "Neuron-based high-content assay and screen for CNS active mitotherapeutics," 2020, in Science Advances

Ronald L. Davis was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) both in 1968 and again in 2009. This reflects a longstanding engagement in scientific research.

Best Publications

  • Spatiotemporal rescue of memory dysfunction in Drosophila

    Sean Eric McGuire;Phuong T. Le;Alexander J. Osborn;Kunihiro Matsumoto

  • Spatiotemporal gene expression targeting with the TARGET and gene-switch systems in Drosophila.

    Sean Eric McGuire;Zhengmei Mao;Ronald L. Davis

  • OLFACTORY MEMORY FORMATION IN DROSOPHILA: From Molecular to Systems Neuroscience

    Ronald L. Davis

  • Eight different types of dopaminergic neurons innervate the Drosophila mushroom body neuropil: anatomical and physiological heterogeneity.

    Zhengmei Mao;Ronald L Davis

  • The role of Drosophila mushroom body signaling in olfactory memory

    Sean E. McGuire;Phuong T. Le;Ronald L. Davis

  • The Drosophila learning and memory gene rutabaga encodes a Ca2+/Calmodulin-responsive adenylyl cyclase.

    Lonny R. Levin;Pyung Lim Han;Paul M. Hwang;Paul G. Feinstein

  • Defect in cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase due to the dunce mutation of learning in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Duncan Byers;Ronald L. Davis;John A. Kiger

  • Mushroom bodies and drosophila learning

    Ronald L. Davis

  • Tripartite Mushroom Body Architecture Revealed by Antigenic Markers

    Jill R. Crittenden;Efthimios M C Skoulakis;Kyung An Han;Daniel Kalderon

  • P{Switch}, a system for spatial and temporal control of gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster

    Gregg Roman;Keita Endo;Lin Zong;Ronald L. Davis

  • Physiology and biochemistry of Drosophila learning mutants.

    R. L. Davis

  • Integrin-mediated short-term memory in Drosophila

    Michael S. Grotewiel;Christine D. O. Beck;Kwok Hang Wu;Xin-Ran Zhu

  • Traces of Drosophila memory.

    Ronald L. Davis

  • Drosophila α/β Mushroom Body Neurons Form a Branch-Specific, Long-Term Cellular Memory Trace after Spaced Olfactory Conditioning

    Dinghui Yu;David-Benjamin G. Akalal;Ronald L. Davis

  • DAMB, a Novel Dopamine Receptor Expressed Specifically in Drosophila Mushroom Bodies

    Kyung An Han;Neil S. Millar;Michael S. Grotewiel;Ronald L. Davis

  • Epigenetic spreading of the Drosophila dosage compensation complex from roX RNA genes into flanking chromatin.

    Richard L Kelley;Victoria H Meller;Polina R Gordadze;Gregg Roman

  • A novel octopamine receptor with preferential expression in Drosophila mushroom bodies.

    Kyung An Han;Neil S. Millar;Ronald L. Davis

  • The cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase encoded by the drosophila dunce gene is concentrated in the mushroom body neuropil

    Alan Nighorn;Marion J. Healy;Ronald L. Davis

  • Molecular analysis of cDNA clones and the corresponding genomic coding sequences of the Drosophila dunce' gene, the structural gene for cAMP phosphodiesterase

    Chun-Nan Chen;Sylvia Denome;Ronald L. Davis

  • Preferential expression of the drosophila rutabaga gene in mushroom bodies, neural centers for learning in insects

    Pyung Lim Han;Lonny R. Levin;Randall R. Reed;Randall R. Reed;Ronald L. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirill A. Martemyanov
Kirill A. Martemyanov Scripps Research Institute
Howard J. Edenberg
Howard J. Edenberg Indiana University
Randall R. Reed
Randall R. Reed Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Neil S. Millar
Neil S. Millar University College London
J. David Sweatt
J. David Sweatt University of Alabama at Birmingham
Allan Bradley
Allan Bradley University of Cambridge
Zhi-Yong Yang
Zhi-Yong Yang Sanofi (United States)
Kendal Broadie
Kendal Broadie Vanderbilt University
Edwin J. Weeber
Edwin J. Weeber University of South Florida
Mitzi I. Kuroda
Mitzi I. Kuroda Brigham and Women's Hospital

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